Month: September 2015

These lyrics from Daft Punk pretty much sum up the past year at Pentaho and tie us nicely into the theme of this year’s PentahoWorld – Big Data at Work! It’s been a busy year and we’ve added substantially to our portfolio of capabilities while working diligently to build out a strong foundation for the future of Big Data orchestration and embedded analytics. As the Director of Product Management… Source: Pentaho BI, Big Data Analytics, Blog Posts – www.pentaho.com

Consumers (and B2B customers) are more and more empowered with mobile devices and cloud-based, all but unlimited access to information about products, services, and prices. Customer stickiness is increasingly difficult to achieve as they demand instant gratification for their ever changing tastes and requirements. Switching product and service providers is now just a matter of clicking a few keys on a mobile phone. Forrester calls this the age of the customer, which elevates business and technology priorities to achieve: Business agility. Business agility often equals the ability to adopt, react,…

I’m sure you know that three days of immersive learning and hands-on training will improve your effectiveness with the Pentaho Business Analytics Platform – the question is, how do you make the case to your boss and get buy-in from your company to attend PentahoWorld? In my role as COO at Pentaho, I’m often asked to approve the expense of attending a conference. So, I thought I’d give some… Source: Pentaho BI, Big Data Analytics, Blog Posts – www.pentaho.com

Ah, the good old days. The world used to be simple. ETL vendors provided data integration functionality, DBMS vendors data warehouse platforms and BI vendors concentrated on reporting, analysis and data visualization. And they all lived happily ever after without stepping on each others’ toes and benefiting from lucrative partnerships. Alas, the modern world of BI and data integration is infinitely more complex with multiple, often overlapping offerings from data integration and BI vendors. I see the following three major segments in the market of preparing data for BI: Fully…

You’ve heard it before but we said it again – this time in our recent webinar. There's a new kid in town: the chief data officer. Why the new role? Because of an increasing awareness of the value of data and the painful recognition of an inability to take advantage of the opportunities that it provides — due to technology, business, or basic cultural barriers. That was the topic of our webinar presented to a full house a few days ago; we discussed our recent report, Top Performers Appoint Chief…